Problem with overload resolution.

[scott snyder]

> From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart)
> I'm not familiar with the legalese used the standard, so perhaps
> I'm out of my depth here, but do the two end() members return
> "similar types"?
> 
> class it {};
> class ci {};
> 
> class list {
> public:
>   it end();
>   ci end() const;
> 
> 
> Niall


My understanding is that the overload resolution is based
on the arguments to end(), not what it returns.
Here, the argument to end() is the implicit `this' pointer,
which in the first case is a `list *' and in the second
a `list const *'.

(Note that the example here is simplified from the STL list class,
which has end() returning distinct (template) classes depending on
whether the call is const or not.)

sss